I'm a bully in troubled times

Jiang Yu was awkward for two days.

As a man of science and engineering, he actually has a bit of machismo in his heart, thinking that he is a man and cannot be taken care of by his wife.Moreover, he was used to being proud, and he couldn't accept showing such a fragile and helpless appearance in front of Qi Ranming.

But no matter what he said, Qi Ranming neither agreed nor refused, but just silently doing what he thought he should do.Taking care of Jiang Yu's daily life, serving tea and water, watching him drink medicine, and so on.Jiang Yu gradually got used to it, and he relaxed - he should put away his pride a little bit.

Qi Ranming took care of him so considerately that even the imperial doctor Qu could not help sighing after seeing him: Mr. Qi knows how to repay Jiang Yu, and for Jiang Yu's support and recommendation, he is so devoted to Jiang Yu. He is really a gentleman and worthy of others admiration.

Hearing this, Jiang Yu felt a little dark and unhappy at the same time.

An Shuang's daughter-in-law was praised.What's annoying is that if it weren't for the troubled times now, it's not appropriate to make things more complicated. Jiang Yu really wanted to tell these old doctors openly like he did when he was in Quwo: "What kind of support, he is my friend. young married woman."

It's better to sneak a glimpse of relatives under the astonished gazes of several old doctors to see how shy he looks.

Jiang Yu wanted to announce to the world very early on that Qi Ranming was his man, but he could only endure it for the time being.

As Jiang Yu's health gradually improved, word from the Marquis of Yan also came from the palace, saying that the murderer had been found and was temporarily imprisoned until Jiang Yu recovered.

Qi Ranming also asked Jiang Yu who hurt him like this.

Jiang Yu looked at the hostility in Qi Ranming's eyes, recalled what Qi Ranming had said in Quwo, and asked uncertainly, "Aren't you going to kill that person?"

Qi Ranming let out a low hum, and said, "He treats you like this, can't you kill him?"

Jiang Yu then smiled: "No, it's not that you can't kill him, but you can't kill him now."

"It was Lord Shen, the elder of the three dynasties, who did it."

"The veteran of the three dynasties, yet he is still so careless in his actions." Qi Ranming frowned, "It was a waste of his decades of reputation."

"It is precisely because he is a veteran of the three dynasties, and because he is older, he is more conservative. In fact, some of these people who oppose it do not want Yan to be strong, but their ideas are too pedantic and stubborn. If you regard any ancestor's law as a dogma, then He refused to change a single word." Jiang Yu smiled, "That's why I have such hatred for a deviant like me who clamors to change the laws of my ancestors."

"Perhaps in their eyes, I am the one who disturbed the peace of Yan Kingdom."

"Then you framed him..."

Jiang Yu looked at Qi Ranming with a slight smile, and asked, "You think I'm cruel again, that I'm unscrupulous?"

"That's not true," Qi Ranming was a little embarrassed, "Master Shen is a person in this whirlpool. No matter what happens to him, I won't think you are unscrupulous. Because since you are involved, you have to make sure you end up badly." .”

"Unfortunate death..." Jiang Yu said in a low voice.

"I didn't mean you." Qi Ranming realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly made up for it, "Of course you won't."

Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows.

Qi Ranming said earnestly: "Of course you will be the one who has the last laugh. How could those wastes get you? You will be fine."

Qi Ranming really thought so, not self-consolation, or words to comfort Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu smiled: "Then what if? What if something happens to me and I die, what will you do?"

Qi Ranming seriously thought about the possibility: "No matter who killed you, I will avenge you and die with you." After a pause, he added, "Let Gongsun Ke bury us together."

In Jiang Yu's eyes, the serious look was clumsy and cute.

"Okay." Jiang Yu said with a smile, "Live in the same bed and die in the same hole, and being a pair of desperate mandarin ducks sounds quite poignant."

Qi Ranming couldn't help laughing: "What a poignant beauty..."

Jiang Yu said again: "I will wait for you, cross the Naihe Bridge together, and make an appointment to see you in the next life."

"Do you believe in an afterlife?" Qi Ranming asked.

Jiang Yu said: "I didn't believe it before."

Qi Ranming: "What about now?"

"Now..." Jiang Yu looked at Qi Ranming, "I hope there is."

One life is too short, and people nowadays are relatively short-lived, and it is not bad to live to be five or sixty years old.Jiang Yu is now 60 years old, and he can live another 26 years... But it is not certain whether he can live 30 years.

Too short, and he greedily felt it wasn't enough.

He even imagined that since he could come to this world, one day, he could take Qi Ranming to the modern age to have a look, let him see what is peace and prosperity, and what is equality of all living beings.

Qi Ranming smiled lightly.

It was the second watch, the summer night sky was full of stars, the wind was clear and the moon was bright, and the peach trees outside the house were flourishing, and peaches were bearing fruit one by one.

"Let's go out and look at the stars," Jiang Yu said.

"it is good."

Qi Ranming helped him up, Jiang Yu's footsteps were still weak, most of his weight rested on Qi Ranming's body, but Qi Ranming walked steadily.His internal strength is astonishing, the weight of a grown man is nothing at all.

Qi Ranming helped Jiang Yu to the eaves of the door, moved Zhang Taishi's chair for him to sit on, and Jiang Yu pulled Qi Ranming to sit with him.

"It's been a long time since I heard you play the flute." Jiang Yu looked at the stars all over the sky and said with a slight breath.

"I'll play it for you." Qi Ranming said.

The air flows out from between the lips and enters between the white bone flute, and the clear and round sound of the flute floats into the night sky with the evening wind, blending with the moonlight.

The moonlight is not intoxicating, but the sound of the flute is intoxicating.

The next day, Jiang Yu got up and went to the palace to meet Yan Hou.

Yanhou didn't expect Jiang Yu to get out of bed so soon, and asked the imperial doctor, who said that Jiang Yu had a good foundation, so he recovered faster than ordinary people.Yanhou did not doubt that he was there, and immediately gave Jiang Yu a seat, and summoned the "assailant", Lord Shen.

I haven't seen him for a few days, Mr. Shen is full of dejection, he looks like he is dying, he is getting old, he is even older than a few days ago.

Seeing Marquis Yan, he didn't kneel down either.

Marquis Yan was very angry with him, he felt in his heart that Master Shen was relying on the old to sell the old, and was proud of his favor, so he dared to act so boldly, so now he is very disgusted with this old man, so he didn't give him a seat and let him stand.

"Uncle Shen, Lord Suiyang is here, why don't you plead guilty quickly and apologize to Lord Suiyang?" Yanhou said.

"Confess?" Master Shen said disdainfully with a vicissitudes of voice, "What guilt? I never poisoned Jiang Yu, why should I plead guilty?"

Yanhou was furious: "Why are you still so stubborn? When Jiang Yu was in the prison, you were the only one who went to the prison and punished Jiang Yu. If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"

Master Shen's cloudy eyes were full of deep-seated hatred, staring at Jiang Yu and said: "Sure enough, Mr. Suiyang is not someone in the pool, and he is so ruthless to himself, Shen really admires him!"

Jiang Yu's face was still pale, and he coughed twice: "Master Shen, what is the meaning of this? Why did I poison myself?"

Lord Shen sneered and said, "If you lie down for a few days, you can get rid of my opponent, wouldn't it be worth it?"

Qi Ranming was furious when he heard this, and said coldly: "The punishment that Master Shen used on Lord Suiyang, could it be that Lord Suiyang also used it on himself?"

Yanhou didn't believe him at all, and said sarcastically: "Dong Xiong was like this last time, and this time you Shen Bo are like this again. I really didn't expect that you self-proclaimed nobles have such dirty hearts. Political enemies are so unscrupulous."

"The matter has come to this, and you still dare to quibble!" Yanhou said, "If you saw Lord Suiyang lying on the bed with his life and death uncertain, would you still speculate and slander others so viciously?"

"Oh, I'm vicious?" Master Shen shook his head, knowing that it would be useless to say anything else, "Since that's the case, Your Highness might as well execute the old minister. With such a stigmatized name on his back, the old minister has no face to live on in the world."

When it comes to disposing of Lord Shen, Marquis Yan naturally still wants to ask Jiang Yu what he means.

Jiang Yu couldn't open his mouth, so he just said: "It's fine to deal with it according to the law. But Mr. Shen is old and weak. His Highness thinks that he has been doing his best for the country of Yan for decades, so let's deal with it leniently." .”

In the end, the Marquis of Yan sentenced Master Shen to exile for three thousand miles, deprived of his title, and never pardoned.

With Mr. Shen's physique, he would die on the road if he traveled less than three thousand miles.Therefore, this is probably more uncomfortable for Mr. Shen than a direct death penalty.

Although he was also poisoned to kill the court officials, Dong Xiong was not sentenced to severe punishment because of the presence of the queen and the prince.Master Shen was not so lucky.

Dong Xiong was dismissed, Lord Shen was exiled, and the leaders of the two old nobles were both brought down by Jiang Yu with the same trick. Lord Shen never had the chance to return to Jicheng to make a comeback.Although Dong Kong is still a centipede, he is dead but not stiff.But at least for now, he can no longer directly intervene in various matters of reform, let alone stop him.

Therefore, from now on, the implementation of the New Deal, which was suspended for a few days because of Jiang Yu's imprisonment, will be implemented more smoothly.

After returning from the palace, the Marquis of Yan allowed Jiang Yu to rest for a few days, and then asked the official to return to his original post and continue to carry out the New Deal for him.Unfortunately, Qi Ranming had to go back to continue training.

Therefore, the two of them no longer have the leisure time to get along day and night, eat and live together, and sleep together at night like these days.The days of peace are always short.

However, it is not without reason that Marquis Yan ordered Qi Ranming, Wei Boyong and others to step up their military training.

Since Chu State sent troops to Zheng State last month and swallowed a piece of Zheng State's land, Qin State, Zheng's ally, sent troops to aid Zheng State, and fought Chu State on Zheng State's battlefield.

Yan Hou had a vague premonition that a large-scale war was coming, and he had to be prepared in order to remain invincible in this melee.

On the sixth day of June, Wancheng, Chu State.

At the beginning of the year, the Marquis of Chu sent invitations to the vassal states, inviting the vassal kings and the king of Zhou to go to Wancheng of Chu to meet the alliance on the sixth day of June this summer.

The original state of Jin didn't respond, but now the state of Jin has split into the two states of Zhao and Shi. Jiang Yu heard the news that it was the state of Zhao who sent people there, but the state of Shi did not.Qin State did not go, but Qi State did.And the small countries have basically gone.

After several wars in recent years, Chu State has initially shown its strength and ambition.The Great Zhou Dynasty had a vast territory, with more than a dozen large and small vassal states, and there were not many who could compete with the current Chu State's army.

As for King Zhou, of course he didn't go.

However, King Zhou sent Ji Zhong and his men to hunt in Yecheng in the north of Wancheng, which is only a few days away from Wancheng.On the surface it was hunting, but in fact it was a demonstration, a warning to Chu State, and monitoring of Chu State's movements.